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{{Music of the United States
| Statesong= "[[Our Delaware]]"
| Organizations= Delaware Friends of Folk
| Institutions=
* [[OperaDelaware]]
* [[Delaware Symphony Orchestra]]
* Wilmington Music School
| Venues= 
| Festivals=
* Delaware Music Festival
* [[Clifford Brown Jazz Festival]]
}}
[[Delaware]] is a [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[Mid-Atlantic States|Mid-Atlantic]] region of the [[United States]]. The [[Delaware Symphony Orchestra]] is the largest organization of professional performers in the state, and is more than seventy years old; the orchestra evolved out of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra.<ref>[http://www.desymphony.org/new/history.cfm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725231409/http://www.desymphony.org/new/history.cfm |date=July 25, 2011 }}</ref>  The Delaware Music Festival is a prominent [[music festival]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} Other musical institutions include [[OperaDelaware]], the Music School of Delaware, and the School of Contemporary Music.

Delaware is also home to the [[Firefly Music Festival]] and The Big Barrel Country Music Festival annual music festivals held at the [[Dover International Speedway]].

The [[List of U.S. state songs|state song]] of Delaware is "[[Our Delaware]]", with words by George B. Hynson and Donn Devine and music by Will M. S. Brown.<ref>[http://portal.delaware.gov/facts/history/delsong.shtml ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513144657/http://portal.delaware.gov/facts/history/delsong.shtml |date=May 13, 2008 }}</ref>

Recent, local trends include a surge in popularity for the [[blues]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20051221/2234513.html |title= Delaware Coast Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060302095255/http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20051221/2234513.html |archive-date=2006-03-02}}</ref>

== Notable Delaware musicians ==
*[[Boysetsfire]], post-hardcore punk band,<ref>[http://www.boysetsfire.org/culture2.html#readmore]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603094543/http://www.boysetsfire.org/culture2.html#readmore |date=June 3, 2009 }}</ref> [[Newark, Delaware]]. 
*[[David Bromberg]] lives in [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]].
*[[Clifford Brown]], [[jazz trumpeter]] from [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]].
*[[Cab Calloway]], [[jazz band]] leader, retired to [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]], and died in [[Hockessin, DE|Hockessin, Delaware]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} his song "[[Minnie the Moocher]]" was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
*[[The Caulfields]] from [[Newark, Delaware]].
*[[The Crash Motive]] from [[Newark, Delaware]].
*[[Bob Marley]] lived in Delaware for a brief time, during which he was employed at Chrysler.
*[[Dorothy Rudd Moore]], composer, from [[New Castle, Delaware]].  
*[[Matthew Shipp]], jazz pianist from [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]].
*[[Smashing Orange]] from [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]].
*[[Spindrift (band)|Spindrift]] from [[Newark, Delaware]].
*[[The Spinto Band]] from [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]. 
*[[George Thorogood]], blues/rock musician from [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]. Did "[[Bad to the Bone]]" in 1982. He attended the [[University of Delaware]].
*[[Tom Verlaine]] and [[Richard Hell]] of the band [[Television (band)|Television]] met attending school at Sanford.
*[[Vinnie Moore]], guitarist for [[UFO (band)]] from [[New Castle, Delaware]]

==See also==
*[[Indigenous music of North America#Eastern Woodlands|Indigenous music of North America]]

== Notes ==
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